Improvement in handles for tea-pots



E. w. PORTER.

Tea Pot Handle. No. 86,444, Pater ited Feb. 2, 186 9.

othersskilled in the art to-make and use the same,

the-ends of metallic handles and the junction of the rangenient produces indifi'erentnon-conductors, besides M i g gamut eat.

EDMUND wron'rna, or irnunzrou, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR To, THE PORTER BRITANNIA AND PLATE COMPANY, on THE SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 86,444,

Md February 2, 1869.

i V W MPROVEMENT m HANDLES FOR TEA-POTS.

The Schedule 'referred to in -04. I I these Letters Patent and making part of the lame.

To all whom 'it mag concern: I 7

Be it known that I, EDMUND W. PORTER, of Tauuton, in the county of Bristol, and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Handles for Tea-Pots, and other metallic table-ware; and I do hereby declarethat thefollowing is a full, clear,- and exact description thereof; which will enable reference being had to the accompanying formingpart of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in handles for tea and coflee pots, and other metallic articles of table-ware, whereby it is designed to provide non-heatconduoting handles, at less. expense and of better heatresisting-quality than those now in use, and. to apply them in a manner to admit them to be readily detached, when required, for plating, I cleaning, 860. i 1

Figure 1 represents a sectional elevation-of my improved handle, as applied to a tea-pot,'and s Figure 2 represents a transverse section on the line :62: of fig. 1.

Similar letters ofreference indicate like parts.

Hitherto, attempts have been made to provide n0nconducting handles for. tea-pots by interposing washers of bone, ivory, and other similar substances, between drawings,

samewith the metallic brackets,'or other means for connecting them to the body of the pot; but this arbeing expensive. Now, I

' My invention consists in providing handlesof wood, hard rubber, or other material of high resisting qualities, and connecting them to the metallic arms, or other means of connection with the body of the vessel, in a detachable manner, so thatthey may be readily taken off when'it may be desirabl'e t0 replate the said vessels, or to clean them, or for any other purpose.

being held in place by the screw-rod According to the plan which I prefer for connecting the said handles, I propose to provide a square or otherformed opening, a, which will prevent tlre'handlesfrom being turned around in the bracket or one end of the wood or other non-conducting handle, 0, to vfit the said opening, making the said reduced portion of the-handle short enough to admit'it to be in- (1 enlargement near handle, and the bracket e, being ,fitted with holes for the purpose, and fit on tothe end of the said bolt a nut, to hold the whole together, as is clearly shown. By this simple arrangement, a haridlc may be readily put in and taken out, and handles of any non-conducting qualities may be used. The heads and nuts of the bolts may be made in any ornamental form desired.

I am aware that non-conducting handl heretofore applied to tea pots' and other-similar vessels, and I, therefore, do not claim thisbroadly; but

What I do claim, is Detachably connectingpthe non-conducting handle 0 to metallic table-ware by means of the square or other angularly-formed socketin the arm I), adapted to receive the tenon upon the upper end of thehandle, whose lower end rests upon the arm 0, said handle f, as herein shown and described, for the purpose specified.

B.- B. KELLY, GEO. T. Aprwoon.

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